It appears that pipermail does not work will with the message catalogs.
Please have a look at
http://mail.python.org/pipermail/playground/
This HTML page is formatted as KOI-8R, but that encoding is nowhere
declared. More disturbingly,
http://mail.python.org/pipermail/playground/2002-November/000018.html
has the body of the message encoded as UTF-8. However, the rest of the
page is still encoded as KOI8-R.
It appears that we need either to recode the message in the encoding
of the HTML header/footer, or recode the HTML header/footer to the
encoding of body of the message (using character references where
necessary).
Which one would you prefer?
Regards,
Martin